Equip yourself with software project survival guide. It's for everyone with a stake in the outcome of a development project - and especially for those without formal software project management training. That includes top managers, executives, clients, investors, end-user representatives, project managers, and technical leads. Here you'll find guidance from the acclaimed author of the classics code complete and rapid development. Steve McConnell draws on solid research and a career's worth of hard-won experience to map the surest path to your goal - what he calls "one specific approach to software development that works pretty well most of the time for most projects." Nineteen chapters in four sections cover the concepts and strategies you need for mastering the development process, including planning, design, management, quality assurance, testing, and archiving. For newcomers and seasoned project managers alike, software project survival guide draws on a vast store of...